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Rookie of the Year - Home Run Hitters

The American League has added a disappointing crop of rookie HR hitters. This was not supposed to occur. Royals 3B Alex Gordon and Devil Rays OF Delmon Young were projected to be elite hitters. 11 HRs for Gordon and 9 for Young say otherwise. As a matter of fact, White Sox 3B Josh Fields is likely to lead AL rookies in HRs as his 15 seems out of reach for 2007 - at least to those disappointed fantasy owners of Gordon and Young.

In the National League, the situation is different. Brewers 3B Ryan Braun has seamlessly handled his promotion from AAA to hit 24 HRs. However, that does not lead NL rookies. Arizona CF Chris B. Young does with 26 HRs. Rockies' SS Troy Tulowitzki's 17 HRs are impressive, but like Steve McCroskey in Airplane, TT picked the wrong season to be a rookie.

PLAYER TEAM HR RBI SB BA
Chris B. Young ARI 26 47 21 0.237
Ryan Braun MIL 24 62 10 0.332
Troy Tulowitzki COL 17 67 6 0.293
Josh Hamilton CIN 17 39 3 0.286
Josh Fields CHW 15 46 1 0.245
Kevin Kouzmanoff SDG 13 54 1 0.236
Hunter Pence HOU 12 46 8 0.328
Alex Gordon KAN 11 42 13 0.246
Mark Reynolds ARI 11 44 0 0.271
Elijah Dukes TAM 10 21 2 0.190
Delmon Young TAM 9 64 7 0.284
Jarrod Saltalamacchia TEX 9 25 0 0.261
Adam Lind TOR 8 30 1 0.230
Travis Buck OAK 7 34 4 0.288
Miguel Montero ARI 7 30 0 0.227
Dustin Pedroia BOS 6 38 5 0.323
Shelley Duncan NYY 6 13 0 0.295
James Loney LAD 6 30 0 0.311
Billy Butler KAN 5 40 0 0.298

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